hackermail is a mails management tool for hackers who collaborate using mailing lists. It requires no complicated setup but just git. Using it, you can fetch mailing list archives, read mails in those, and post replies or new mails.

For now, hackermail supports public-inbox[1] managed mailing list archives and manually exported mbox file contents. Linux Kernel Mailing Lists (LKML)[2] are good examples of the public-inbox managed mailing list archives.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/design_notes.html
[2] https://www.kernel.org/lore.html

List recent mails in Linux kernel DAMON subsystem mailing list (https://lore.kernel.org/damon):

$ ./hkml init --manifest ./manifests/lore.js
$ ./hkml list damon --fetch

Open the fifth mail of the list:

$ ./hkml open 5

Send a reply to the 5th mail:

$ ./hkml reply 5

Forward the 5th mail to others:

$ ./hkml forward 5

List entire mails of the 5th mail's thread of the list:

$ ./hkml thread 5

Write and send a mail to the mailing list:

$ ./hkml write --cc [email protected]

Export the [2, 5)-th mails on the list to 'exported.mbox' file:

$ ./hkml export --range 2 5 exported.mbox

List mails in an .mbox file:

$ ./hkml list exported.mbox

For more detail,

$ ./hkml -h

For more detailed usages, please refer to USAGE.md file.